In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of...
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Full stop (redirect from Full stop (typography))
font on typewriters, but in fact that convention replicates much earlier typography—the intent was to provide a clear break between sentences. This spacing...
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selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing, letter spacing, and spaces between pairs of letters. The term typography is also applied to...
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Colon (punctuation) (redirect from Colon (typography))
colon. In modern typography, a colon will be placed outside the closing parenthesis introducing a list. In very early English typography, it could be placed...
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of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. It corresponds to the body height of the typeface. For example, one em in a 16-point typeface...
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typed characters make up a line one inch long. Point (typography) Pitch (typewriter) Traditional point-size names Legros, Lucien Alphonse; Grant, John...
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In typography, the body height or point size refers to the height of the space in which a glyph is defined. Originally, in metal typesetting, the body...
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In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list. For example: Milk Eggs Bread Butter The...
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stock Pint (Pt.), a unit of volume or capacity Point (typography) (Pt.), a unit of measure used in typography Permian-Triassic extinction event, a mass extinction...
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Dagger (mark) (redirect from Double dagger (typography))
§, and the pilcrow ¶ – some of which were nonexistent in early modern typography. Partly because of this, superscript numerals have increasingly been used...
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com — Fonts. Retrieved 2004-10-27. Advanced Typography with Mac OS X Tiger Text & Fonts Apple's typography developer site TrueType Reference Manual LastResort...
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to 40- or 42-point type. The French gros-canon referred indifferently to type sizes of 44 or 48 points. Southward, John (1888), "Typography", Encyclopædia...
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pint, a unit of capacity Potential trouble source, in Scientology Point (typography) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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In typography, an asterism, ⁂, is a typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle, which is used for a variety of purposes. The...
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art scaling algorithms Pixel aspect ratio Pixelation Pixelization Point (typography) Glossary of video terms Voxel Vector graphics Foley, J. D.; Van Dam...
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note. The cue is placed after any punctuation (normally after the closing point of a sentence). ... Notes cued in the middle of a sentence are a distraction...
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definitions; see Point (typography) § History for details. Used in gunmaking. Used in botany. Used in button manufacturing. Used in typography. Used in American...
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A cicero /ˈsɪsəroʊ/ is a unit of measure used in typography in Italy, France and other continental European countries, first used by Pannartz and Sweynheim...
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comment. POINT_SIZE (integer) See Point (typography). If it is not separately specified, EMspace = round(POINT_SIZE/10), ENspace = round(POINT_SIZE/20)...
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Cleland, 1923. Example fleuron glyphs from a digital font. Asterism (typography) – Typographic symbol of three asterisks Dingbat – Typographic symbol...
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(publishing), an organized list of information in a publication Index (typography), a hand- or fist-shaped punctuation mark Bibliographic index, a regularly...
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Typesetting (category Typography)
Dingbat Formula editor History of Western typography Ligature (typography) The Long Short Cut Point (typography) Prepress Printing Printing press Sort (typesetting)...
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In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the...
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Southward, John (1911). Practical Printing: A Handbook to the Art of Typography. Retrieved 18 March 2023. "Hyphens, En Dashes, Em Dashes". Chicago Manual...
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sung with three notes, this slur was used in combination with a double point and a diseme overline. The International Phonetic Alphabet uses two type...
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In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends...
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Summit (redirect from Acme (typography))
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain...
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Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th...
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Punctuation". I Love Typography. Retrieved 28 November 2014. Martens, Nick (January 20, 2010). "The Secret History of Typography in the Oxford English...
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Letter spacing (redirect from Tracking (typography))
inspired the title of the book Stop Stealing Sheep, an introduction to typography. Word processing and desktop publishing programs for personal computers...
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